Rise and Shine: Free Rides and Not So Free Rides

Your morning link roundup from The Shared City, featuring Uber for NFLers, bike lanes over the Thames, and the post-post-September 11th co-working boom.

A Better Block event in downtown Kansas City. There was also a pony. Credit: zflanders.

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Uber targets that underserved slice of the transportation market: NFL players. The company is distributing keychain cards for free rides to professional footballers, and while the Players Association takes about meeting the need for “discrete rides,” the words “drinking and driving” are left unsaid.

At 48,000 kroner a piece, are Copenhagen’s new tablet-equipped bike share bikes too fancy?

Competing for part of London’s new £100 million bike funds is a plan to create a High Line-style path for walkers and bikers across the Thames.

Filmmaker Julie Espinosa is proposing to make a documentary on Washington, D.C.‘s taxi industry.

NYU’s new data-driven Center for Urban Science and Progress — and its physicist-director, Steven Koonin — earns a profile in the journal Physics Today.

Here’s one reasonable-sounding explanation for the rise of co-working spaces in Washington, D.C.: Contractors brought on by the score during the post-9/11 boom a dozen years ago are now looking to launch their own projects.

Six months later, the developer of the addictive Click That ‘Hood game admits that on the day he started working on the app, “I was still confused about which number was latitude, and which longitude.”

Inspired by Kickstarter and the like, an Oakland-based company called Mosaic is crowdfunding local solar energy projects. Investments start at $25.

Having already spread from Baltimore to Massachusetts’ bigger cities, CitiStat is up in running in Salem, where it will be known as SalemStat.

Event notice: UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies is holding a one-day symposium, “Can Open Data Improve Democratic Governance?, on September 12.

And the Virginia-Pilot editorializes that the $43,000 that Norfolk paid Better Block to do an instant transformation of their Granby Street is paying off in new leases on the stretch.

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Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.

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